Overview Experience life elevated when you enjoy vistas of wildflowers, star gazing, and summer campouts atop Figueroa Mountain. Lose yourself in a grove of beautiful red manzanita, oaks and pines as Figueroa Campground lifts your spirits and your senses. Take a leisurely walk up the mountain ridge to watch a beautiful sunset or walk the trail around the campground to see the wildlife and all of nature's beauty. During the spring season, the area features an amazing wildflower display. This easily accessed pedestal in the pines is also very popular with hunters during the annual deer season.Recreation Trails, horseback riding, off road vehicle use, mountain biking, fishing, camping, backpacking, seasonal hunting, shooting and photography are all popular recreational uses on Figueroa Mountain. Figueroa Campground serves as a centralized location to various trailheads, including the Davy Brown/Fir Canyon and Ballard Trails. On Figueroa Lookout Road, you will also find amazing views of rolling hills and the shimmering Pacific Ocean in the distance.Facilities Figueroa Campground has 33 campsites and each site has fire rings, pedestal barbeques and a picnic table. Hard packed soil makes several of the sites accessible to the three, double vault, wheelchair accessible bathrooms. Figueroa Campground can accommodate RVs up to 25 ft. long; hook-ups are not available. Three dumpsters are located on Figueroa Mountain Road for convenient trash disposal. There is no drinking water at this site; please bring your own water.Natural Features Figueroa Campground is surrounded and shaded by red manzanita and a variety of oak and pine trees. During spring, Figueroa Campground is an ideal place to camp while you enjoy the magnificent wildflower displays that Figueroa Mountain has to offer. This is also the home of numerous spring migrating birds, such as the exquisite western tanager, which breeds and raises its young on Figueroa Mountain until August. Nearby Attractions A few miles away, Davy Brown Campground is the starting point for several trails, including the spectacular Davy Brown/Fir Canyon Trail. Two miles further are the Lower Manzana and Upper Manzana trailheads, entry points to the majestic San Rafael Wilderness. Los Olivios, Santa Ynez, Solvang and Buelton are within an hour's drive.
Reviews of Figueroa Campground
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Verizon 4G
Confirmed by 1 users | Last reported on April 01, 2019AT&T 4G
Confirmed by 2 users | Last reported on June 08, 2021T-Mobile 5G
Confirmed by 1 users | Last reported on September 11, 2023Reviews
This is a nice campground. The sites are big and comfy. Bathrooms are vault, but they are clean. There is no water, so make sure that you bring plenty for drinking, cooking, washing, and putting out your fire.
We have a small pop-up trailer and we tow it with a minivan, which isn't usually a problem, but the 10 miles up the steep, winding, one lane road was frightening, albeit beautiful. We came on a busy weekend, due to the super bloom and there were tons of cars. In many areas vehicles will need to back down/up to accommodate a vehicle going the other direction. There is no railing, so there were many scary moments. It wouldn't be a big deal if there wasn't so much traffic.
Be sure to be quite prepared as the nearest town is Los Olivos - about a 30-45 minute drive away.
If you are just tent camping, then this is an excellent place. If you have a big trailer, bring your big balls, and a sedative for your passengers. It's extremely beautiful on the road up there, with lots of nearby hiking trails.
We were there in late March. There were lots of annoying gnats, but they don't bite so it's not a big deal - unless you can't deal with any bugs.
Pick sites on the outside of the loop and you can be pretty sure to get an excellent site. The ones in the middle are nice and big, but you won't be up against the trees.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 2
Site Number: 29
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
AT&T 4G
Pretty drive to it up a decent road. Stayed on a Monday night and there was only one other site taken. No water but clean vault toilets. Lots of birds and squirrels.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 25
RV Type: Van
Cell Coverage Rating
AT&T 4G
Only stayed one night in late Feb and only had to share the entire campground with 2 other campers + the host. It was quiet, pretty and serene. It’s a nice old-school campground in the trees meant for tent/car camping mostly.
Notes: while the sites are good sized and reasonably dispersed, the parking spot for each is small and tight. Not very wide, not very deep - not trailer/RV friendly. Also few of the parking pads were level and some were pretty dramatically sloped. I was able to use leveling blocks in to get comfy in my Sprinter. All in all, it’s a tight drive through the campground loop with some overhanging tree limbs and small radius turns. Not class A friendly.
The 10 mile road up from Los Olivos is paved, but becomes mostly 1 lane and rough near the top close to the campground with switchbacks and some potholes.
Nightly Rate: $28.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 16
We just fit with our 21’ Lance trailer the host was able to move us to a spot where the asphalt wasn’t crumbling off the hillside. T-Mobile service pretty good morning less good afternoons and evening.
The bugs are the big drawback here. Black gnats or maybe midges rule mid day when there’s no breeze. Mornings and evenings when it’s cooler they are not around.
Nightly Rate: $25.00
Days Stayed: 5
Site Number: 28
This spot would be absolutely perfect if it were not for the flies. The drive from the 154 is a spectacular ire corner after corner. It is all paved and on pretty good condition. The sites were well maintained and the campground had plenty of level spots to back the van into. Each site was huge with plenty of space.
Not sure if it was the time of year, but as soon as we stepped out these very pesky flies were crawling in our ears, nose, mouth and eyes. There were so many it was like a scene from the conjuring. We tried every bug defense we had with no luck. When we jumped back into the van about 10 or so got in with us. Our pups could not bare it.
We ended up settling down the raid at a turn out for a couple hours to see the most amazing sunset ever. Then just came back to sleep and move along. Not sure where our spider friends are this time of year, but they would be fat dumb and happy at this spot!
Nightly Rate: $32.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 23
Cell Coverage Rating
T-Mobile 5G
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Pets Allowed
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Restrooms
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Wifi
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Wheelchair Accessible
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Credit Cards Accepted
- Affiliation
- National forest
- Check In
- 2:00 PM
- Check Out
- 12:00 PM
- Last Nightly Rate
- 32.0
- Lowest Nightly Rate
- 5.0
- Max Length
- 25 ft
- Max Stay
- 14
- Sites Count
- 34
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Paved Sites
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Fifty Amp
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Full Hookup
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Rec Facilities
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Pull Through
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Tent Sites
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Dump Station
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Big Rigs
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Open Seasonally
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Age Restricted
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Boondock
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Cabin Sites
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Dispersed Sites
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Firewood
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Fulltime Residents
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Group Tent Sites
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Laundry
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Mobile Homes
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Permit Required
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Propane
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Public Water
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Pull Through RV Sites
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Reservations
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Sewer Hookup
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Standard Tent Sites
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